Challenges

Focused hands-on problems designed to help you hone your DevOps or Server Side skills. Some challenges are more educational, while others are based on real-world scenarios. The platform provides hints and feedback for each challenge, including automated solution checks.

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Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes

Perform In-Place Updates on a Kubernetes Deployment

by Omkar Shelke

Update container images, container names, update strategy, and replica count in an existing multi-container Kubernetes Deployment.

kubernetes-101 deployment ckad multi-container

This challenge was created by a community author. Community content is reviewed by the iximiuz Labs team on a best effort basis.

Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes

Create and Apply a Kubernetes Job with Completions and Parallelism

by Omkar Shelke

Create a Kubernetes Job template for Team Aurora that runs a busybox command across multiple completions in parallel, with specific pod labels and container configuration.

ckad cka jobs kubernetes-101

This challenge was created by a community author. Community content is reviewed by the iximiuz Labs team on a best effort basis.

Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes

Switch Live Traffic from Blue to Green Using Kubernetes Services

by Omkar Shelke

Perform a blue-green deployment by creating a new green version of a web application, then switch live traffic from blue to green with zero downtime by updating the Service selector.

ckad deployments services blue-green kubernetes-101

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Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes, Containers

Mount Static Assets from an OCI Image into a Kubernetes Pod

by Ivan Velichko

Use Kubernetes image volumes to mount a static HTML artifact into an nginx Pod without an init container or a custom nginx image.

kubernetes-101 oci-image storage container-volume

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Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes

Keep Pods Healthy with Liveness and Readiness Probes

by Omkar Shelke

Add HTTP-based liveness and readiness probes to an existing Kubernetes Deployment and verify application health and availability.

kubernetes-101 probes liveness readiness ckad

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Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes

Multi-Container Pod Security Design

by Omkar Shelke

Create a multi-container Pod with different user IDs per container while sharing a common group ID at the Pod level for collaborative file access.

kubernetes-101 security-context pod multi-container cka

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Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes

Set and Use Secrets in a Kubernetes Deployment

by Omkar Shelke

Configure a Kubernetes Deployment to consume Secrets as environment variables and volume mounts.

kubernetes-101 secrets deployment ckad

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Challenge, Medium, on Kubernetes

Inspecting and Extracting Kubernetes Kubeconfig Data

by Omkar Shelke

Extract context names, the active context, and a decoded client certificate from a Kubernetes kubeconfig file and write the results to specific files.

kubernetes-101 kubeconfig client-cert k8s-context cka

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Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes

Set ConfigMap Environment Variables in a Pod

by Omkar Shelke

Inject ConfigMap values as environment variables into a Kubernetes Pod.

kubernetes-101 cka ckad configmap pod

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Challenge, Easy, on Kubernetes, Containers

Deploy a Pod with a Container Image from a Private Registry

by Ivan Velichko

Practice configuring Kubernetes to pull images from a private registry and run Pods with authenticated registry access.

kubernetes-101 container-registry container-image kubectl